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Inhibition of modulation instability in lasers by noise
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel. gariel@tx.technion.ac.il
Optics Letters
|August 9, 2003
Abstract:
It is shown that additive noise can inhibit modulation instability in laser equations of motion. A related self-starting condition for pulsation is obtained by employing a fluctuation--dissipation relation between noise and losses and a statistical mechanics approach. Entropy considerations are shown to play a crucial role. The quantum limit for self-starting is estimated.